ME 120

• Bring Laptop
• Bring Sparkfun Inventor's kit
• Bring Digital multimeter
• Bring Miniature test clip adapters
• Install Arduino and get set up with the Redboard before coming to class

Quiz 1 will be at the start of class meeting number 5. Immediately after the quiz, students will set up the in-class part of Homework 2 that is due on the same day.

Homework 2 is due at the beginning of the class meeting next week (Lecture 5).

• Be able to make a plot of given data with Excel
• Be able to build a breadboard circuit to provide power to an LED
• Be able to write an Arduino program to blink an LED

• Mandatory: take the online Quiz 3 on D2L. Its access will close 30 minutes before the beginning of Lecture 4 class time.

• Arduino Programming Part 1: Write an Arduino program to blink an LED:
  • Slides on the blink sketch.
  • Screencast (13:45)
    

• Analyzing and Plotting data with Excel:
  • slides setting up the problem
  • Screencast on using Excel: 17 minute YouTube video

• Excel example: Simple Circuit Analysis and Plotting with Excel
  • Slides of problem set-up
  • Photocell datasheet
  • Spreadsheet with photocell data
• PDF with instructions on how to built a circuit to power an LED.

• Hand notes on simplifying circuit schematics
• Breadboard Primer
• Getting started with Arduino (arduino.cc)
• Blink tutorial (arduino.cc)
• Let there be blink (adafruit.com)